Joseph Winston

Joseph Winston (17 June 1746-21 April 1815) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 3) from 1793 to 1795 (succeeding John Baptista Ashe and preceding Jesse Franklin) and from NC-12 from 1803 to 1807 (preceding Meshack Franklin).

Biography
Joseph Winston was born in Louisa County, Virginia in 1746, and his family settled in Stokes County, North Carolina in the late 1760s. He served on the Surry County Committee of Safety, as a member of the Provincial Congress, and as Register of Deeds for Surry County in 1778, and he was a major of riflemen at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, the Battle of Kings' Mountain, and the Battle of Guilford Court House during the American Revolutionary War. Winston went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1795 and from 1803 to 1807, and he died in 1815.